Global Adventures: Around Findlay
Before the adventure begins, the whole community gets involved.
What if exploring another country didn't begin when you walked through the doors of a Global Adventures event?
What if you discovered Brazil at your favorite pizza place, learned a Norwegian word while ordering coffee, spotted Colombian wildlife in a shop window, or found a new story from another part of the world at a local bookstore?
Global Adventures: Around Findlay brings cultural discovery into businesses, organizations, and everyday spaces throughout Findlay-Hancock County.
In the weeks leading up to each Global Adventures event, local businesses and community organizations are invited to create a simple experience inspired by the featured country.
It might be something to taste, make, read, see, hear, try, or discover.
And it doesn't have to be complicated.
Make It Fit What You Already Do
You know your business. We know Global Adventures.
Together, we can find a creative way to connect the two.
A restaurant might create a special menu item. An art studio could offer a country-inspired project. A bookstore might feature authors from the country. A business could place a cultural fact and QR code at its checkout counter.
You don't need to come to us with an idea.
Journey to Belonging can help develop an experience that fits naturally with your business, organization, customers, employees, and level of involvement.
Your Around Findlay experience could include:
Taste It
Create a country-inspired pizza, dessert, coffee, meal, snack, or specialty item.
Make It
Offer an art project, craft, pottery piece, floral design, or other creative experience.
Try It
Host a class, demonstration, game, movement activity, challenge, or hands-on experience.
Discover It
Share an interesting cultural tradition, word, story, object, animal, place, or surprising fact.
See It
Create a window display, decorate a storefront, showcase artwork, or feature imagery inspired by the country.
Read It
Highlight books, authors, folktales, cookbooks, travel stories, or children's literature.
Share It
Introduce customers to the featured country with Journey to Belonging fact cards, table tents, signage, or QR codes.
Bring It to Work
Engage employees with trivia, a lunch-and-learn, cultural facts, a tasting experience, or another workplace activity.
The Next Adventures
Brazil — August 2027
Explore Brazil's language, flavors, music, movement, stories, biodiversity, traditions, and everyday life.
Norway — October 2027
Discover Norwegian traditions, outdoor life, folklore, food, art, stories, landscapes, and more.
Colombia — April 2028
Experience Colombia through its people, regions, flavors, music, wildlife, art, traditions, and stories.
Around Findlay, opportunities will be available in the weeks leading up to each Global Adventures event.
| Your Business or Organization | Around Findlay Idea |
|---|---|
| Pizza restaurant | Create a limited-time country-inspired pizza |
| Bakery | Feature a traditional or inspired sweet |
| Coffee shop | Serve coffee connected to the country and share its story |
| Restaurant | Offer a featured dish or weekend special |
| Art or pottery studio | Create a country-inspired project |
| Bookstore or library | Feature authors, stories, or children's books |
| Dance or fitness studio | Offer a country-inspired movement or dance experience |
| Garden center or florist | Highlight native plants, landscapes, or biodiversity |
| Pet or animal organization | Introduce an animal native to the featured country |
| Retail shop | Create a window display or in-store discovery |
| Salon or service business | Display cultural facts or a Global Adventures QR code |
| Workplace | Offer employee trivia, a tasting, or a cultural learning activity |
| Any business | Display a Global Adventures discovery card or table tent and invite customers to learn something new |
Big or small, it counts.
An Around Findlay experience could be a monthly special, a weekend event or simply one fascinating fact beside your cash register.